kmkat and her kneedles

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Srsly.

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 DIY shibori dyeing.

A sheep in different clothing.

Sorry, gotta go.

Mathematical scarves.

Who doesn't love Peter Pan?

Knit textured earrings.

Wouldn't this be fun to knit in different shades/tints of red and give to your sweetie on Valentines Day?

Knitted... jellyfish?

Anybody recognize this yarn?

Every cat deserves matching socks.

 

 

Lonely links.

photo credit: 037/365 - A link to dusk via photopin (license)

Wait for it...

We need to know about the mac and cheese.

Solution for the heat.

Graveyard of discontinued flavors.

Geographically challenged.

A couple things about gluten.

How to repeat a song on YouTube.

The kitchen gadget from hell.

Coupla things about gluten.

Discover the favorite TV series about your state.

On children cleaning their room: "Of course, you will likely still need to vacuum (and release a family of squirrels into their natural habitat)..."

Seven alternative ways to organize your bookshelf(s).

Somewhat related: twelve books [that this guy thinks] every intelligent person should read.

Also vaguely related: 10 Reasons We Love Bookish David Bowie.

Success in the world of the freelance writer.

Query: what's wrong with this kitten?

How to restore mealtime like it was in the 1980s.

Sticky bookmarks! Hidey-holes!

Which book protagonist are you?

Pablo and Katherine.

Chris and Chaos!

Imagine if the journey to Mt. Doom took nine years instead of just one.

 

Throwback Thursday: turtle love.

I captured this video in June 2007 and posted it on the blog then, but the original YouTube video disappeared when Google[?] bought YouTube and redid all the accounts. Here it is again, in all its snapping turtle, sex-in-the-water glory.

  
Turn up your sound to hear the shells clunk together.

Ten on Tuesday, the American art edition.

Even though I have a BA in art history, I am not terribly familiar with American artists. European art from medieval through 19th century, Japanese art of the 16th through 19th century, and early Chinese art -- those I can handle. So my list may be pretty short. And consist of American artist that I know.

Ten Favorite American Artists.

 

1. Georgia O'Keefe. I'm sure she will appear on many lists. Because she was awesome.
   
   
   
   
   
2. George Segal. This artist has a personal appeal to me. Back in my college days I often visited the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It was free and fun. One day I wandered into a gallery in an ::cough:: altered state of mind ::cough::. I thought there was someone else already there, and it made me self-conscious. Eventually I looked around and discovered that the other *person* was actually one of Segal's life-size white plaster human sculpture. I felt embarassed for a moment, then decided that if the measure of a piece of art was the strength of its effect on the viewer, then this was a masterpiece.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Edward Weston. Somewhere I have a book of his photographs. The pepper, below, was my introduction to him.
   
    
   
   
   
4. Edward Hopper. Another painter who will appear on many lists.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Chuck Close. It is not so much that I like his work as that one of his huge self-portraits also hung in the Walker back in the day, and it made an impression on me.
   
   
   
   
6. Mark Rothko. Another one that needs a little background. Back when Younger Son was in middle school he did color study in art class that reminded me of Rothko's work.
   
    
   
   
   
7. Alfred Steiglitz. Okay, he is not necessarily one of my favorites, although he did do wonderful work. But as I was perusing his photographs, the one below left caught my eye. Separated at birth?
   
    
   
   
   
   

The knit goes on, the knit goes on.

Cuteness.

Backgammon afghan. (Pattern available here.)

Winter is coming: knit yourself a sun.

This would be fun in double-knitting.

This would be fun to knit.

I have 3,000+ yards of fingering weight Polwarth almost exactly like this (mine is a little brighter).

Proposed knitting emojis.

Damn, I wish people would figure out the difference between knitted and crocheted garments. (Caution: there is audio in this video.)

Just when you thought it was safe to put your socks on...

Oh, sure, I would wear that.

These would be way warm.

This is just wrong.

Yarn? What yarn?

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Beach links!

photo credit: Rusty chain via photopin (license)

Extinct tree grows anew from ancient jar of seeds unearthed by archaeologists.

Just another Tuesday in Canada, etc...

Self-destructing... mosquitoes?

Meditation (audio NSFW).

Cool stairs. via TheBloggess.com

"The odds of the very big one are roughly one in ten."

Let's give the guns to women.

Recipe for the day: Schadenfreude pie.

"...also, sometimes a dragon will melt somebody’s car and it’s a whole problem.”

I wish a clerk would say this to me.

Canadians: nicest people on earth.

In honor of the Pluto fly-by.

Depression described.

Carpet surfing.

Learning to ride a bike as an adult: it's a thing.

What color is this song.

Chris has links for you.

You know it's bad...

Lelophant.

Never-aired scenes from Downton Abbey.

Attention: birdwatchers.

When cucumbers attack.

Ten on Tuesday, the ice cream edition.

photo credit: Home Made Ice Cream via photopin (license)

My Ten Favorite Flavors Of Ice Cream.

1. Mint chocolate chip, aka peppermint bon bon, preferably in the slightly melted state shown below. Best is Blue Bunny.
   
   
   
   
2. Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk.
   
   
   
   
3. Häagen-Daz® Swiss Almond Vanilla.
   
   
   
   
4. Any ice cream that has swirls of fudge or hunks of chocolate. But not chocolate ice cream -- the chocolate flavor is not sufficiently intense. Ordinary chocolate is not enough; it must be fudgey.
   
   
   
5. Vanilla with a splash of amaretto or creme de menthe or Fra Angelico or even triple sec.

 

That's it. Don't bother me with your strawberry or your rocky road or your sherbet or your sorbet/gelato/ices. If it doesn't have my preferred intense chocolate or a liqueur, I'm not interested.

Watermelon links!

Zippered coin purse.

Free socks for life.

Five things every knitter regrets. (Like this, for example.) (Or this.) (Or this.)

Sheep is life.

Stay cool.

Best use of a granny square EVAH.

Eleanor and Franklin.

This is lovely.

"...even knitting..."?

 

Selected pages from an antique. Published the year I was born.

 

If anyone is keen to knit a vintage pattern, let me know.